Joining in Car Body Engineering 2019

20-21 February 2019
Detroit, MI, USA

Joining in Car Body Engineering 2019

The US Network for Automotive Engineers

THE RIGHT JOINING TECHNOLOGY

Body shop joining technologies clearly are the key enablers in managing and realizing modern lightweight design car body concepts, which increasingly feature advanced mixed material concepts. The oft-repeated claim "The right material in the right place…” is in fact incomplete without having its proper continuation in mind: "… with the right joining technologies!”. When choosing the "right” joining technology, however, the basic constraint is to ensure the economically sound producibility of car body designs, to keep a focus on engineering solutions that put cost efficiency and flexibility aspects at the center of attention.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

After a successful premiere, the second edition of the US-based Automotive Circle conference Joining in Car Body Engineering also focuses on finding and developing latest technologies. The conference aims to bring about an intensive exchange of information and networking among expert automotive engineers from OEM as well as their suppliers, providing valuable contacts and ideas to develop modern car body joining solutions tailored to the American market requirements. The platform will focus on application-oriented technical progress concerning all relevant joining technologies for series car body production.

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GUIDED TOUR @ FORD

Conference participants will have the opportunity to visit the Ford Dearborn stamping plant, with focus on the welding cell. With this cell Ford is currently able to do 70 million welds per year. This has not been exposed to any specialist community before. During this exclusive tour there will also be some information about non-destructive testing in relation to the welding cell.

Impressions 2018

This conference was one of the best events I attended lately. I made several contacts that help me define list of the projects for near future.

Chris MichalowskiFiat Chrysler Automobiles

Thank you very much for all the team for this very interesting, fruitful and perfectly organized conference."